General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Local Authority in my neck of the woods, operates a Brown Bin, (compostable waste) collection. Garden waste can be put in raw. Food/kitchen waste must be bagged in compostable bags, which they supply free of charge.

It's a good idea in principle.

However, the bags really are well on their way to decomposing before you get to use them. You are lucky if you can tear one off the roll, without it shredding. Odds are that whatever you put in will drop straight through, taking the bottom out of the bag, and create yuk all over t kitchen floor.

Maybe, thought I, they are sitting around too long, and I am not getting through them at the rate intended.

So I used one or two to put kitchen waste into my own compost tumbler: they survived a whole year of tumbling with the compost, and then ANOTHER whole year of being buried in the garden soil. Still they have not decayed. Seems they only decay in your kitchen drawer, and stabilise once disposed of. Bizarre or what?